About
Jon Herlocker is Vice President and General Manager of the Software Analytics Group at Cohu, Inc., where he oversees the software P&L. His earlier career includes serving as lead engineer of MovieLens, co-founder and CEO of Tignis, VP and CTO of VMware's Cloud Management Business Unit, CTO of Mozy, and CTO of EMC's Cloud Services division, and he previously held a tenured professorship in Computer Science at Oregon State University, where his research received the 2010 ACM Software System Award. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota and a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Lewis and Clark College.
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Jonathan L HerlockerExecutive Officer, Director
Experience
- Cohu, Inc.Vice President and General Manager, Software Analytics Groupcurrent2025 — presentSeattle, Washington, United States
- Fathom WaterStrategic Advisorcurrent2025 — presentSeattle, Washington, United States
- Tignis, Inc.Founder & President/CEO2017 — 2025Greater Seattle Area
- VMwareChief Technology Officer (CTO) & Principal Engineer, Cloud Management BU2011 — 2017Greater Seattle Area
- EMCVP of Engineering & Chief Technology Officer (CTO), Cloud Services2008 — 2011
- Pi CorporationChief Technology Officer2006 — 2008
- Oregon State UniversityAssociate Professor Of Computer Science2000 — 2008Corvallis, Oregon, United States
- Smart Desktop, Inc.Co-founder and VP of Engineering2006
- MusicStrands, Inc.CEO and co-founder2004 — 2005
- University of MinnesotaGraduate Research Fellow1994 — 2000
- Sun Microsysems LaboratoriesGraduate Research Intern1997Mountain View, CA
- NorthwestNetIntern1993
Skills & more
Information Retrieval4Entrepreneurship5Collaborative Filtering2Computer Science20Cloud Computing53Recommender Systems2Machine Learning8Software Development29StorageStart-ups15Software Engineering11Programming5
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Frequently asked questions
- Who is Jon Herlocker?
- Jon Herlocker is Vice President and General Manager of the Software Analytics Group at Cohu, Inc., where he oversees the software P&L. His earlier career includes serving as lead engineer of MovieLens, co-founder and CEO of Tignis, VP and CTO of VMware's Cloud Management Business Unit, CTO of Mozy, and CTO of EMC's Cloud Services division, and he previously held a tenured professorship in Computer Science at Oregon State University, where his research received the 2010 ACM Software System Award. He holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Minnesota and a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Lewis and Clark College.
- Where does Jon Herlocker work?
- Jon Herlocker is Founder of Tignis.
- What companies did Jon Herlocker found?
- Jon Herlocker founded Tignis.
- Where did Jon Herlocker go to school?
- Jon Herlocker studied at University of Minnesota (Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science); Lewis & Clark College (Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics & Computer Science).
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